Death's Door

She was like the dawn insubstantial and somehow transient as though she would fade from reality at any moment. Every day the villagers watch as Death a spectral suit of black armour mounted upon a horse rides through the valley beneath their mountain top home. After a lifetime living on the edge of Death's domain his close proximity is neither terrible or threatening rather he has become a simple fact of life and a familiar neighbour. Nothing seems to change until one night a young boy alone in the meadows beneath a summer moon watches a mysterious figure in white approaching the village through the tall grass. That fateful night culminates in a love story that crosses the borders between the village and the valley childhood and adulthood and even life and death. Death's Door is a novella from the author best selling Love and Space Dust and Could You Ever Live Without?